Spring / Summer 2024 Catalog

The Univer sit y of Utah Press

SPRING/SUMMER 2024

I’m so pleased to begin the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the University of Utah Press. After many years engaged in the world of university press publishing, I’ve come to understand it as an intellectual endeavor filled with passion and integrity. We at the Press are proud of our publications and strive to maintain the highest scholarly standards, aligned with the university’s mission to generate and share knowledge, discoveries, and innovations. Our books are works of community: the community within the University of Utah and at the Marriott Library; the communities of curiosity across the state and the region; with our colleagues in the broader university press community, and as a committed team at the Press working closely with our authors to make their books the best possible contributions to their fields. We are proud of the rigorous and honorable work we do, from a grammar of Sindarin Elvish to Lakota language textbooks, from an accessible exploration of Utah’s foodways to a penetrating exploration of Bears Ears as a place of refuge and resistance, to the recently published First Peoples of Great Salt Lake, which demonstrates the long continuity of Native populations in the region even through times of dramatic cultural change. The new titles you’ll find in our Spring/Summer 2024 catalog represent our longstanding record of publishing the finest scholarship on the archaeology of North America and beyond, while also showcasing our commitment to regional issues around Great Salt Lake, as we present four small volumes based on lectures from the 2023 annual symposium of the university’s Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment. The books in this catalog also demonstrate our commitment to issues of global significance with two new titles on aspects of sustainability. These are but snapshots of the wonderful new titles you’ll find in these pages.

A seventy-five-year anniversary is a notable achievement, and the University of Utah Press is proud to have reached this landmark. Much good and thoughtful work has been done over these years by many committed people. As we have grown and changed, horizons have altered and directions have varied and adjusted. Reflection, discovery, collaboration, curiosity, and committment remain essential to this fine charge of publishing books for the state, the region, the nation, and the world. We invite you to join us as we step into the next seventy-five years.

—Glenda Cotter, Director

Archaeology/Anthropology 10-12 Environmental Studies 6-7 Linguistics 10 Mormon History 8 Nature & Environment 3-4, 6-7 Poetry 9 Public Policy/ Tanner Lecture 5

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SUSTAINABILITY

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Sustainability for the Forgotten

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Gary E. Machlis

Bringing the oft-forgotten into the core of the sustainability movement

April 2024, 192 pp., 6 x 9 2 Illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-168-4 Hardcover 978-1-64769-166-0 $70.00 Paper 978-1-64769-167-7 $24.95

Also of Interest Re-envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean Edited by Robin Kundis Craig and Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy eBook 978-1-64769-102-8​ hardcover 978-1-64769-100-4 $95.00s Paper 978-1-647690101-1 $34.95

Misplacing Ogden, Utah

Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputations

Pepper Glass eBook 978-1-60781-752-9 Paper 978-1-64769-154-7 $30.00s

Opening with the extraordinary story of a young French priest working in 1968 among the impoverished villages of northeast Brazil as he struggles to bring sustenance, sustainability, and hope to these disregarded and willfully ignored communities, this book asks a broad and far-reaching question that challenges the contemporary sustainability movement: What about sustainability for the forgotten?

Sustainability for the Forgotten is an incendiary book that confronts the history, policies, and practices of sustainability. It interrogates the usefulness of current sustainability approaches for the poorest of the poor, the chronic underclass, victims of natural disasters, refugees, the oppressed, and asks: How can we do better? With examples that range from the coffeelands of El Salvador to the coal country of American Appalachia; from the streets of Detroit to refugee camps in Greece and the upscale metro centers of the affluent, sustainability is examined with a critical eye and with an emphasis on ensuring that the forgotten are heard.

At once well-researched and passionate, wide-ranging and sharply focused, Sustainability for the Forgotten is unlike any other book on sustainability. Written with a distinctive voice that is reasoned, unflinching, and often poetic, the book challenges the sustainability movement to follow “a just and necessary path.” The result is a provocative statement on the future of sustainability and a call to action that is ultimately hopeful.

Gary E. Machlis is University Professor of Environmental Sustainability at Clemson University. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability and its Board on Environmental Change and Society. He has written widely on issues of conservation, science policy, and sustainability.

“I read Sustainability for the Forgotten with a feeling of awe. Gary Machlis has unearthed an interwoven history of environmental sustainability and anti-poverty activism that few Americans know anything about. He helps clarify the point that a movement for sustainability has to be driven by the needs of those with the least resources, not the most. A valuable, crucial book.”

—Jess Row, author of White Flights and The New Earth

“Sustainability for the Forgotten is an insightful synthesis of historical exclusion, rigorous scholarship, and compassion. Machlis presents an unflinching survey of the often ‘unseen’ dimensions of humanity and challenges us to embrace a more just and inclusive sustainability vision. This is a truly life-changing and worldchanging handbook for the future. It should be read by everyone concerned with sustainability.”

—Rich Borden, Rachel Carson Chair in Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic

National Park Readers

Series editor: David Stanley

The National Park Readers

series combines some of the most important and thought-provoking artistic, historical, literary, and scientific works ever published about the people and places that make up America’s iconic national parks.

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The Arches Reader

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Edited by Jeffrey D. Nichols

A selection of the best writing about Arches National Park National Park Reader Series

February 2024, 208 pp., 5.25 x 8 eBook 978-1-64769-140-0 Paper 978-164769-139-4 $24.95

Geology is the star attraction in many national parks, but Arches National Park reveals erosional wonders like no other place on earth. There’s something thrilling and slightly unsettling about a massive rock with a hole in its middle or a ribbon of stone flung like a spider’s thread from one rock face to another. And there’s nothing quite like a view of blue sky or snow-capped mountains framed by stone. So many stony holes of so many shapes and sizes abound here that people spend years hunting unrecorded arches, quarreling over measurements and categories, and dreaming up original names.

Part of the National Park Readers series, The Arches Reader is an anthology of writing about Arches National Park and the surrounding area. The selections range from creative nonfiction to short fiction to poetry to amateur versions of scientific reports; they are wide-ranging and have never before been collected in one place; several selections are previously unpublished. Photographs collected here include both historic black-and-white images and beautiful, full-color images of some of Arches’ most striking features. The Arches Reader is an essential companion for anyone who wants to better understand its unique natural and human past.

Jeffrey D. Nichols is professor of history at Westminster University. He is the author of Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power and co-editor of Playing with Shadows: Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West.

Also of Interest Wonders of Sand and Stone

A History of Utah's National Parks and Monuments

Frederick H. Swanson eBook 978-1-60781-767-3 Hardcover 978-1-60781-765-9 $59.95 Paper 978-1-60781-765-9 $34.95

Geology of Parks, Monuments, and Wildlands of Souther Utah Robert Fillmore Paper 978-0-87480-652-6 $21.95

If you want to know Arches National Park, and you've read Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, your next book needs to be The Arches Reader. Jeff Nichols is a historian, and he shows here his respect for fascinating original sources and excerpts long enough to capture their full-throated flavor. Many stories in Nichols’s anthology feature park rangers and their families who turn out to be the colorful opposite of faceless bureaucrats. Arches sits on the bank of the Colorado River just outside Moab, and so this collection extends beyond the park to include uranium hunters, pilgrim poets, cranky environmentalists, and early outfitters. Nichols uses Arches as a springboard into Colorado Plateau environmental history and rural Utah culture. It’s a worthy plunge into vastly enjoyable territory.

—Stephen Trimble, editor of The Capitol Reef Reader and Red Rock Stories

“Arches’ story is unique, tied so closely as it is to the fate of its adjacent community. I’m not sure that any other park can tell quite the same story of an explosion in popularity and a community’s attendant ambivalence. And its sometimes despair.”

—Jen Jackson Quintano, author of Blow Sand in His Soul: Bates Wilson, the Heart of Canyonlands

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​ SUSTAINABILITY

THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRES SPRING/SUMMER 2024

Sustainable Capitalism Essential Work for the Anthropocene

Edited by Inara Scott

Examining the connections between sustainability and capitalism

May 2024, 280 pp., 6 x 9 eBook 978-1-64769-176-9 Hardcover 978-1-64769-174-5 $75.00 Paper 978-1-64769-175-2 $29.95

Capitalism has been linked to climate change, racism and slavery, wealth inequality, and the decline of democracy.

At the same time, capitalism may have been instrumental in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, facilitating vast technological innovations, and improving standards of living across the globe. As climate change accelerates and the world is threatened with existential crises, we must ask: Is capitalism incompatible with sustainability? While this question is as complex and urgent as it is resistant to simple answers, the contributors to this volume make the case that a more sustainable capitalism is within our reach.

Sustainable Capitalism takes on the challenge of sustainability from a uniquely interdisciplinary and diverse perspective, offering both theory and tools for action. Topics range from an analysis of the foundations and definition of capitalism to the specific regulatory mechanisms that may be necessary to rein in its current, unsustainable trajectory. Readers will find nuanced and important analyses of options and potential outcomes that are not available in any other work. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the path we are on and how we might improve the lives of people around the globe.

Inara Scott is Gomo Family Professor and senior associate dean in the College of Business at Oregon State University. She is the editor in chief of the American Business Law Journal.

Also of Interest What’s Nature Worth?

Narrative Expressions of Environmental Values

Edited by Terre Satterfield and Scott Slovic

"Sustainability is too important to be treated with simplistic analyses and infeasible recommendations. This volume engages with the difficult issues that arise at the intersection of capitalism and sustainability, and it will be valuable resource" —Michael Vanderbergh, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law, Vanderbilt University

Paper 978-0-87480-790-5 $29.95

The Bitterroot & Mr. Brandborg

Clearcutting and the Struggle for Sustainable Forestry in the Northern Rockies

Frederick H. Swanson eBook 978-1-60781-990-5 Hardcover 978-1-60781-101-5 $29.95

Contributions by: Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, University of Connecticut David Bernell, Oregon State University Christy Anderson Brekken, Oregon State University Liz Brown, Bentley University Daniel R. Cahoy, Pennsylvania State University Victor B. Flatt, Case Western University David Hess, University of Michigan Ellen Alexandra Holtmaat, Oregon State University Ruth Jebe, Boise State University Mark J. Kaswan, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Ryan Katz-Rosene, University of Ottawa Elizabeth J. Kennedy, Loyola University Maryland Dana Neacsu, Duquesne School of Law Rajat Panwar, Oregon State University Robert Prentice, University of Texas at Austin Natalia Vidal, University of New Mexico

PUBLIC POLICY/ PHILOSOPHY

Avoiding Institutional Failure

Allen Buchanan Commentaries by Cécile Fabre and Sir Paul Tucker

The Tanner Lectures of Human Values

Reconsidering COVID-19 public policy

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Also of Interest Thank You Fossil Fuels and Good Night The Twenty-First Century’s Energy Transition

Gregory Meehan eBook 978-1-60781-540-2 Paper 978-1-60781-539-6 $24.95

Hope, Heart, and the Humanities

How a Free College Course is Changing Lives

Edited by Jean Cheney and L. Jackson Newell eBook 978-1-60781-528-0 Paper 978-1-60781-527-3 $21.95

There is no shortage of criticisms of U.S. COVID-19 policy.

This book argues that officials at the highest levels lied to the public or deliberately suppressed relevant information, shamelessly oversold the efficacy of masks and vaccines, and enacted lock-down policies of unproven value that caused massive economic, educational, and psycho-social damage.

In How to Respond Better to the Next Pandemic Allen Buchanan argues that, contrary to widespread opinion, the primary cause of flawed COVID-19 policy was not defective leadership, but rather institutional failure. Decisions were made through processes that lacked the most basic safeguards against the large-institution “yes-man” and group-think phenomena and included virtually no provisions for holding decision makers accountable. More fundamentally, policy makers did not fulfill the crucial duty to provide plausible public justifications for their decisions.

They disguised the fact that scientific opinion was divided on the appropriateness of the policies they endorsed and labeled those who disagreed with them as anti-scientific. In some cases, they responded to criticism, not by engaging it on the issues, but by branding their critics as quacks.

This Tanner Lecture was originally delivered at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, February 1-2, 2022 Allen Buchanan is the author of over 150 articles and 15 books. His most recent books include The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory, coauthored with Russell Powell, and Our Moral Fate: Evolution and the Escape from Tribalism. Buchanan has served as a consultant or staff philosopher to all of the U.S. national bioethics commissions, as a consultant to the Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing, as staff philosopher to the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, and as the only nonscientist member of the Advisory Council for the National Human Genome Research Project.

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How to Respond Better to the Next Pandemic

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Wallace Stegner Lectures

NATURE & ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES/NATURE & ENVIRONMENT

Framing the Problem

The Great Salt Lake Food Chains

Causes and Consequences of a Shrinking Great Salt Lake

Kevin D. Perry The Great Salt Lake ecosystem is on the verge of collapse due to unsustainably large water diversions, the ongoing megadrought, and climate change. Plummeting lake levels will result in a cascade of tremendous economic, ecological, and human health problems if no action is taken. One consequence of particular concern to the public is the potential for exposure to arsenic-laden dust emanating from the exposed portions of the Great Salt Lake lakebed.

Framing the Problem explores how climate change has affected the lake, the consequences of low lake levels, and potential strategies for saving this ecological oasis.

Kevin Perry is professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Utah. His research over the last decade has focused on of dust from the exposed portions of Great Salt Lake.

March 2024, 64 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 26 color illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-163-9 Paper 978-1-64769-162-2 $7.95

Fragility and Resiliency

Bonnie K. Baxter Bonnie K. Baxter explains the trophic structure of Great Salt Lake food chains and resulting impacts from recent years of a shrinking lake and corresponding increases in salinity. Moving from the foundational organisms to brine shrimp, flies, and ten million birds reliant on the lake, Baxter illuminates how salinity and desiccation can affect each level of a complex ecosystem. Presented in the context of current science, she explores the pressures of persistent water diversions and climate change and provides a cautionary tale of a lake on the brink of collapse. Baxter’s hopeful tone, sounding the lake ecosystem’s inherent resiliency, is a welcome voice in the climate conversation and a plea to help save a lake that can survive with a little help from its human neighbors.

Bonnie K. Baxter is professor of biology and director of Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster University. She has authored dozens of scientific papers on the lake. She is co-editor of Great Salt Lake Biology: A Terminal Lake in a Time of Change and co-author of The Great G ​ reat Salt Lake Monster Mystery, a children’s book.

March 2024, 32 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 12 color Illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-183-7 Paper 978-1-64769-182-0 $7.95

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES/SUSTAINABILITY

NATURE & ENVIRONMENT/SUSTAINABILITY

The Great Salt Lake

Indigenous Perspective to Climate and Environment

A Perspective from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Bishop W. Christopher Waddell The identity and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is deeply tied to the Great Salt Lake. As Latter-day Saints settled in the Great Basin, they relied on the Great Salt Lake for industry and recreation. Bishop W. Christopher Waddell explains that today, given the crisis faced by the lake, leaders of the LDS Church consider preserving the Great Salt Lake to be a sacred duty to care for God’s creations and a “critical issue for our state and citizens of Utah.” The LDS Church strives to positively impact the lake and continually improve its water-wise practices by working with local and community leaders, reducing water use at meetinghouses and facilities by utilizing sustainable landscaping principles and effective water management, and donating permanent water shares that will preserve water currently flowing into the lake in perpetuity.

Bishop W. Christopher Waddell is first counselor in the Presiding Bishopric of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Prior to being named an LDS General Authority Seventy in 2011, he worked for Merrill Lynch in several positions, including first vice president of investments.

March 2024, 40 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 9 color illustrations, 5 b/w illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-161-5 Paper 978-1-64769-160-8 $7.95

Darren Parry The lands and waters of the American West encountered by European colonizers were not “untouched” or “wild” as some have recorded, but rather the result of a broad range of Indigenous land and water management techniques. To assume that western-based scientific knowledge is superior to Indigenous wisdom can be a barrier to meaningful and lasting collaboration. We must work together if we are to heal the land that we have collectively sullied.

Darren Parry is the former chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation and teaches Native American history at Utah State University. He serves on the board of directors of the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville, Utah; the Utah Humanities board; and the PBS Utah board of directors.

March 2024, 16 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 eBook 978-1-64769-181-3 Paper 978-1-64769-180-6 $7.95

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MORMON HISTORY/UTAH HISTORY

THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRES SPRING/SUMMER 2024

Twelve Mormon Homes Revisited Touring Polygamous Utah with Elizabeth W. Kane, 1872-1873

Lowell C. Bennion

A fresh look at the social and architectural worlds of nineteenth-century Mormon Utah

July 2024, 248 pp., 7 x 10 89 Illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-179-0 Hardcover 978-1-64769-177-6 $75.00 Paper 978-1-64769-178-3 $29.95

Also of Interest Distributed for the Tanner Trust Fund A Mormon Mother Annie Clark Tanner Paper 978-0-94121-431-5 $19.95

Among the Mormons

Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers

Edited by William Mulder and A. Russell Mortensen Paper 978-0-914740360 $​15.95

In Twelve Mormon Homes: Visited in Succession on a Journey through Utah to Arizona, first published in 1874, Elizabeth Kane recorded impressions of what she heard and saw among the Mormon people in the twelve communities that hosted her and her family.

Neither an apologist nor a convert, Kane maintained her anti-polygamy stance, even while gaining admiration for the women who had entered and endured what she considered an objectionable practice. In this new volume, Lowell C. Bennion immerses readers in the social and architectural worlds encountered by Kane.

He provides descriptions of the people and customs of the plural families that hosted her and reconstructions of what the houses looked like at the time of the visit, particularly valuable to contemporary readers because all but two—the Hinckley house at Cove Creek Fort and the Dame house in Parowan—have long since been demolished. By retracing Elizabeth Kane's steps, readers will gain a new perspective on attitudes toward Mormon life in the nineteenth century.

Lowell C. Bennion taught in the geography department at Humboldt State University in California for nearly three decades prior to his retirement.

“This impressive study brings together the perspectives of vernacular architecture, geography, and history to enrich our understanding of Elizabeth Kane’s luminous description of 1870s Utah.”

—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of A House Full of Females

POETRY

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Two Signatures

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Sara Ellen Fowler

Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry

July 2024, 64 pp., 6 x 8.5 eBook 978-1-64769-187-5 Paper 978-1-64769-186-8 $16.95

In Two Signatures, Sara Ellen Fowler initiates her readers into a synesthetic contract of close attention and deep feeling. From the wood floor of an art museum buckling with Lake Michigan moisture, to the mud-packed hooves of the horse of childhood, to an art student’s spit on a pane of mirrored glass, the poems’ images string together a necklace of exquisite longing. Pleasures and complexities of sensory experience lay the ground for a world where risk is rewarded and candor is sensual. The poet explores registers of desire and power, drawing upon her training as a visual artist to make a studio of language. Temperature and texture gain grammar as the poems reach toward awe via multivalent psychology, sex, and sculptural interventions.

These poems invite readers to explore the vulnerability and insistence that mark one’s devotion to any creative practice.

Sara Ellen Fowler is a writer, artist, and educator living in California. Her writing has appeared in The Offing, X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, Interim, and Gigantic Sequins, among others. Her work has been supported by The Frost Place, the Ashbery Home School, and Community of Writers. In 2023, she was awarded a California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Sara holds a BFA in sculpture from Art Center College of Design and an MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Riverside.

Also of Interest B/RDS Béatrice Szymkowiak eBook 978-1-64769-118-9 Paper 978-1-64769-115-8 $16.95

Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble Carolyn Oliver eBook 978-1-64769-090-8 Paper 978-1-64769-091-5 $14.95

"Sara Ellen Fowler’s debut collection, Two Signatures, sculpts a private language from the exquisite heat of longing and bewilderment. 'I am listening with my skin for her,' Fowler writes, and later commands, 'Hurt me / like this: let me // know your teeth as dearly as / I study my mother.' Allied with Dickinson’s measure of knowing, Fowler’s lyrics alter my temperature, like physical touch, culminating in a sensual decapitation. Yes, as Fowler writes, 'love has taken us down / word for word.' Yes, this book is a gift of intimacy and transformation made tangible in its reaching. An extraordinary debut—highly recommended."

—Allison Benis White, author of Please Bury Me in This

"In language carried on air, in the cellular material of generations, each poem in Two Signatures traces its source invisibly across the spine of another. The poems work inside the body with an explicit sensual, grave, and rare haunting. They settle inside first like a bridge from one life to the next but soon as a fractured web of one life to the many and the many to the impossible count. The poems piece back from their hard light the scattered, the unspooled, the untethered and the strange, taking incident and moment into a terrible, godly reunion."

—Asher Hartman, artist and theater maker

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LINGUISTICS/ANTHROPOLOGY

THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRES SPRING/SUMMER 2024

Piros and Prehistory A Study in Tanoan

David Leedom Shaul

Exploring the language of prehistoric peoples in the Puebloan Southwest

July 2024, 240 pp., 7 x 10 5 Illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-159-2 Hardcover 978-1-64769-158-5 $70.00

In Piros and Prehistory, David Leedom Shaul turns his attention to the Piro language, once spoken by the people of the Piro pueblos in New Mexico but extinct since approximately the year 1900. While arguments have been made in favor of Piro belonging to the Tiwa branch of the Tanoan family, Shaul counters this classification with a detailed rebuttal, firmly establishing Piro within the Tanoan family but outside of the Tiwa branch.

Shaul’s arguments use linguistic analyses coupled with historic and prehistoric records of migration and cultural interaction. Following the establishment of Piro as a Tanoan language, much of the linguistic analysis involves determining the aspects of Piro that were inherited from the earlier Proto-Tanoan versus those that were incorporated later as a result of borrowing from other languages through cultural interaction. This book lays out the linguistic argument that the similarities between Piro and Tiwan languages result from borrowing, not common ancestry, and it provides a record of contact between groups and linguistic evolution based on these movements.

David Leedom Shaul is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of A Linguistic Prehistory of Western North America: The Impact of Uto-Aztecan; Ausaima Language and Culture: Perspectives on Ancient California; Esselen Studies: Language, Culture and Prehistory; and Salinan Language Studies, among others.

Also of Interest Winds from the North

Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology

Scott G. Ortman eBook 978-1-60781-992-9 Paper 978-1-64769-028-1 $45.00s

Norther Paiute-Bannock Dictionary Compiled by Sven Liljeblad, Catherine S. Fowler, and Glenda Powell eBook 978-1-60781-968-4​ Paper 978-1-60781-030-8 $105.00s

“This welcome volume is valuable to linguists, also archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, Indigenous peoples, and anyone interested in native cultures of the Southwest. It provides much new information and sometimes provocative proposals. The scholarship is excellent.”

— Lyle Campbell, University of Hawai’i Mānoa

ARCHAEOLOGY

Archaeologies of Religious Ecology

Edited by Aaron M. Wright

Exploring the relationship between belief and place

April 2024, 240 pp., 8 ½ x 11 46 color illustrations, 30 b/w illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-165-3 Hardcover 978-1-64769-164-6 $80.00

Also of Interest The Archaeology of Place and Space in the West Edited by Emily Dale and Carolyn L. White eBook 978-1-64769-048-9​ Hardcover 978-1-64769-047-2 $60.00s

The Archaeology of Meaningful Places Edited by Brenda J. Bowser and Maria Nieves Zedeño Paper 978-0-87480-882-7 $35.00Ss

In this volume, two dozen archaeologists and allied researchers explore the intersection of religion and landscape in the North American Southwest from ancient to recent times. Although these topics continue to gain currency in contemporary inquiry, Sacred Southwestern Landscapes is the first to study them on equal footing. The essays explore how people enmesh ecological conditions and threads of environmental information into religion, weaving strands of belief and spirituality through a topographic fabric that gives meaning to the material world.

Hailing from various academic and cultural backgrounds, contributors invoke a range of theoretical currents and methodological practices to examine how these relationships developed and evolved. Nearly all the places, people, and paradigms at play in contemporary southwestern scholarship find room among these pages, from the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts to the Colorado Plateau; from diverse cultures, including Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon, Hohokam, Pataya, Trincheras, Navajo (Diné), and Nuevomexicano; and from theoretical frameworks drawing upon phenomenology, materiality, bundling, and semiotics. This collective engagement showcases how religious ecologies can be studied from multiple perspectives and through sundry lines of evidence, leaving readers with appreciation and reverence for the rich and robust sacredness in southwestern landscapes.

Aaron M. Wright is a preservation anthropologist with Archaeology Southwest. His collaborative work with tribal communities has been recognized with commendations from the Arizona Governor’s Archaeology Advisory Commission and the American Rock Art Research Association. He is coeditor of Leaving Mesa Verde: Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest and author of the award-winning Religion on the Rocks: Hohokam Rock Art, Ritual Practice, and Social Transformation.

“In Sacred Southwestern Landscapes archaeologists, historians, and their Indigenous collaborators examine how inhabitants of what today is the Mexican Northwest and U.S. Southwest have interacted with the landscape and the role that landscape played in religious practices.”

— Jakob W. Sedig, editor of Mogollon Communal Spaces and Places in the Greater American Southwest

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ARCHAEOLOGY

THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRES SPRING/SUMMER 2024

Reassessing the Aztatlán World Ethnogenesis and Cultural Continuity in Northwest Mesoamerica

Edited by Michael D. Mathiowetz and John M. D. Pohl

Argues for the prominence of Aztatlán culture in Postclassic Mesoamerica

April 2024, 258 pp., 8.5 x 11 51 color illustrations, 49 b/w illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-150-9 Hardcover 978-1-64769-149-3 $85.00

The Aztatlán tradition of northwest Mesoamerica (AD 850/900–1350+) is one of the most understudied and enigmatic cultural developments in the Americas. This volume presents a spectrum of interdisciplinary research into Aztatlán societies, combining innovative archaeological methods with historical and ethnographic investgations.

The results offer significant revelations about west Mexico’s critical role in over a millennium of cultural interaction between Indigenous societies in northwest and northeast Mexico, the Greater U.S. Southwest, Mesoamerica, lower Central America, and beyond.

Volume contributors show how those responsible for the Aztatlán tradition were direct ancestors of diverse Indigenous peoples such as the Náayeri (Cora), Wixárika (Huichol), O’dam (Tepehuan), Caz’ Ahmo (Caxcan), Yoeme (Yaqui), Yoreme (Mayo), and others who continue to reside across the former Aztatlán region and its frontiers. The prosperity of the Aztatlán tradition was achieved through long-distance networks that fostered the development of new ritual economies and integrated peoples in Greater Mesoamerica with those in the U.S. Southwest/Mexican Northwest.

Michael D. Mathiowetz is a research specialist at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. He has published widely in Kiva, Journal of the Southwest, Journal of Archaeological Research, British Archaeological Reports, Dumbarton Oaks, El Colegio de Michoacán, and others.

Contributions by: Cinthya Isabel Vidal Aldanaz Mauricio Garduño Ambriz María de Lourdes González Barajas Christopher S. Beekman John P. Carpenter Philip E. Coyle José Luis Punzo Díaz Jorge Arturo Talavera González Lissandra González Michael D. Mathiowetz José Carlos Beltrán Medina Juan Jorge Morales Monroy Cristina García Moreno Joseph B. Mountjoy Danielle Phelps Daniel E. Pierce John M. D. Pohl Guadalupe Sánchez Luis Alfonso Grave Tirado Susana Ramírez Urrea Laura Solar Valverde James T. Watson

John M. D. Pohl’s background in archaeology, art history, and media have taken him from feature film and television production to serving as a curator, writer, and designer for major museum exhibitions including “Sorcerers of the Fifth Heaven: Art and Ritual in Ancient Southern Mexico” for Princeton University and “Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico” for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Dallas Museum of Art. “The editors do an excellent job of bringing together all the leading figures on the subject and producing a naturally coherent volume.”

—Matthew Pailes, University of Oklahoma

NEW OCCASIONAL PAPER

Casting a Wide Net Papers in Honor of Joel C. Janetski, Occasional Papers #20​​

Edited by Richard K. Talbot, James R. Allison, and Charmaine Thompson

Celebrating Joel C. Janetski and his life of learning and service Casting a Wide Net recognizes the legacy of contributions that Joel C. Janetski made to archaeology through the influence of his mentoring and collaborations. This volume contains a short biography of Janetski as well as chapters authored by his former students and research collaborators.

While generally focused on Utah, the essays cover topics that overlap with Janetski’s research interests including the Fremont, Ancestral Puebloan of southeastern Utah, Late Prehistoric peoples in northern Utah, faunal studies, and museum studies.

304 pp., 8.5 x 11 Paper 978-1-949847-45-1 $35.00s

A Report of Archaeological Excavations at Antelope Cave Occasional Papers #19

Joel C. Janetski, Deborah A. Newman and James D. Wilde The Arizona Strip of northwestern Arizona lies on the western frontier of the Ancestral Puebloan world, a region whose pre-European history remains poorly known. This volume reports on modest testing of two dry stratified sites on the Strip: Antelope Cave and Rock Canyon Shelter. The testing was done in the 1980s by Brigham Young University under contract with the BLM. In addition to detailed descriptions of the materials recovered during the testing at each site, the volume includes the material recovered by Robert Euler from Antelope Cave in the 1950s. The testing documents late Archaic use of both sites.

In addition, the report contains analysis results on the massive macrobotanical remains by Deborah Newman and Gloria Judges Edwards as well as a chapter detailing Puebloan sandal constructions by David Yoder.

211 pp., 8.5 x 11 Paper 978-0-98551-982-7 $24.00s

An Archaeological Legacy Essays in Honor of Ray T. Matheny Occasional Papers #18

By Joel C. Janetski, Glenna Nielsen, and Deanne G. Matheny Ray T. Matheny mentored undergraduate and graduate studentsat BYU where he also established the first BYU field school of archaeology and was the initiator and director of numerous archaeological projects. An Archaeological Legacy contains a short biography of Dr. Matheny’s life and work as well as essays by both colleagues and former students about a variety of geographical areas and topics, mostly within the scope of the major areas of Matheny’s work: the Colorado Plateau, American Southwest, and Mesoamerica.

Essays cover such topics as ancient Puebloan roads in San Juan County, Utah; Fremont farming and residential mobility on the Colorado Plateau; early Indian schools and federal paternalism in the Four Corners Region; the protection of archaeological sites on national forests in Arizona and New Mexico; and the Paleoindian occupation at Kib-Ridge, Yampa, Colorado.

392 pp., 8.5 x 11 Paper 978-0-98551-981-0 $42.00s

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Highpoints of the United States

A Cultural Landscape from Nevada to Wyoming

A Guide to the Fifty State Summits

Steven R. Simms

Don Holmes

In an eminently readable narrative, Steven Simms, one of the foremost archaeologists of the Great Salt Lake region, traces the scope of human history dating from the Pleistocene, when First Peoples interacted with the lapping waters of Lake Bonneville, to nearly the present day. Through vivid descriptions of how people lived, migrated, and mingled, with persistence and resilience, Simms honors the long human presence on the landscape.

First Peoples of Great Salt Lake takes a different approach to understanding the ancients than is typical of archaeology.

De-emphasizing categories and labels, it traces changing environments, climates, and peoples through the notion of place.

The highpoints of the fifty states range from Alaska’s 20,310-foothigh Mount McKinley to a 345+ foot rise at Lakewood Park in Florida. Some highpoints, such as Mount Mitchell in North Carolina and New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, can be reached by car on a sightseeing drive. Others, including Colorado’s Mount Elbert or Mount Marcy in New York, are accessible as wilderness day hikes. Still others, such as Mount Rainier in Washington or Gannett Peak in Wyoming, are strenuous and risky mountaineering challenges that should be attempted only by experienced climbers. Whatever your level of skill and interest, these varied highpoints offer a diverse range of experiences.

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The third edition of this classic guide updates route descriptions and maps, changes to private property ownership and public lands requirements, lists of guides and outfitters, and essential online resources. eBook 978-1-64769-142-4 Paper 978-1-64769-141-7 $24.95

The Book of Bauer Stories from a Forgotten Town

Stephen S. Lottridge Graffiti-covered industrial concrete ruins are all that remain today to remind us of the lives, adventures, and human relationships that once animated Bauer, Utah. Located just south of Tooele, across the Oquirrh Mountains west of the Salt Lake Valley, Bauer was abandoned in 1979 and declared a toxic waste site. The Book of Bauer: Stories from a Forgotten Town brings it back to life, evoking midtwentieth century family and community in that company town as seen through the eyes of an observant adolescent boy.

Presenting a dramatic snapshot of life in Bauer in narrative autobiographical form, the book recalls the fate of hundreds of derelict mining towns throughout the mountain and sagebrush West. With vivid prose and intimate observation, The Book of Bauer offers an unparalleled memoir of small-town life in Utah and the Great Basin. eBook 978-1-64769-146-2 Paper 978-1-64769-145-5 $24.95

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Edited by Katelyn N. McDonough, Richard L. Rosencrance, & Jordan E. Pratt This volume provides the most comprehensive overview of archaeological research into the late Pleistocene and early Holocene occupation of the North American Far West in over a decade. It focuses on the relationship between stemmed and fluted point technologies in the region, which has recently risen to the forefront of debate about the initial settlement of the Americas. While such interrelationships have intrigued archaeologists for nearly a century, until now they have not been systematically examined in a single curated volume.

This volume lays new groundwork for understanding technological innovation, diversity, and exchange among early Indigenous peoples in North America. eBook 978-1-64769-144-8 Hardcover 978-1-64769-143-1 $80.00s

and educator. From her early experiences assisting at Evelyn Davis’s dance school in Washington, DC, to the creation of the Tanner Dance Program at the University of Utah, her influence was pervasive. She channeled children’s energy, sharpened their senses, and encouraged youthful, authentic dance expression. Tanner’s work endures, continuing to echo with sensitivity and spirit in young dancers throughout the United States and abroad.

Manley’s extensive archival research and personal interviews depict Virginia Tanner as an innovative dance artist and ambitious leader in the field of modern dance. While exploring Tanner’s story, Roots and Wings emphasizes the value of unique instructional methodologies for teaching dance to young children and the vital role the arts play in children’s lives. eBook 978-1-64769-031-1 Hardcover 978-1-64769-029-8 $55.00s

Utah Mollusk Identification Guide Eric J. Wagner The Utah Mollusk Identification Guide offers the latest information for identifying aquatic and terrestrial snails, slugs, clams, and mussels within the state of Utah, providing comparative tables, taxonomic keys, and more than 230 images, including many type specimen images published for the first time. Amateur naturalists and biologists alike will benefit from detailed information regarding size, type, specimen location, junior synonyms (including taxonomy notes), and original descriptions for each of the 139 species. Clarifying notes from the author help to differentiate similar species.

This book includes data on the external and internal anatomy of mollusks and updated taxonomic names.

Family descriptions and miscellaneous data on ecology, life history, and genetics offer readers a wide lens to understand Utah’s mollusks. eBook 978-1-64769-089-2 Paper 978-1-64769-088-5 $44.95 Hardcover 978-1-64769-087-8 $95.00s

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Current Roots and Wings Virginia Tanner’s Dance Life and Perspectives Legacy on Stemmed Mary-Elizabeth Manley with Robert Bruce Bennett & and Fluted Mary Ann Lee Technologies in the Roots and Wings recounts Tanner’s remarkable American Far West Virginia career as a dancer, artist,

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Like A Fiery Meteor Dale L. Morgan

B/RDS

The Life of Joseph F. Smith

Béatrice Szymkowiak

Stephen C. Taysom

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Joseph F. Smith was born in 1838 to Hyrum Smith and Mary Fielding Smith. Six years later both his father and his uncle, Joseph Smith Jr., the founding prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were murdered in Carthage, Illinois. The trauma of that event remained with Joseph F. for the rest of his life, affecting his personal behavior and public tenure in the highest tiers of the LDS Church, including the post of president from 1901 until his death in 1918. In this first cradle-to-grave biography of Joseph F. Smith, Stephen C. Taysom situates Smith within the historical currents of American westward expansion, rapid industrialization, settler colonialism, regional and national politics, changing ideas about family and masculinity, and more. eBook 978-1-64769-129-5 Hardcover 978-1-64769-127-1 $95.00s Paper 978-1-64769-128-8 $34.95

Mormon and Western Histories in Transition

Richard L. Saunders This is the first biography of Dale L. Morgan, preeminent historian of the Latter Day Saints, the fur trade, and the trails of the American West. The book explores how, despite personal struggles, Morgan remained committed to interpreting the past on the strength of documentary evidence, leaving a legacy to inspire contemporary historians. Connecting Morgan’s life with some of the broad cultural changes that shaped his experiences, this book engages with the methodological shifts that coincided with his career.

Sounding board, mentor, and close friend to Nels Anderson, Leonard Arrington, Fawn Brodie, Juanita Brooks, Bernard DeVoto, and Wallace Stegner, Dale Morgan is the common factor linking this influential generation of midtwentieth-century historians of western America. eBook 978-1-64769-122-6 Hardcover 978-1-64769-120-2 $95.00s Paper ISBN 978-1-64769-121-9 $34.95

B/RDS endeavors to dismantle discourses that create an artificial distinction between nature and humanity through a subversive erasure of an iconic work of natural history, John James Audubon’s Birds of America (1827-1838). This process of erasure considers the text of Birds of America as an archival cage. The author selectively erases words from the textual cage to reveal its ambiguity and the complex relationship between humanity and the other-than-human world. As the cage disappears, leaving a space for scarce, lyrical poems, birds break free, their voices inextricably entangled with ours.

Prose poems written in the author’s own words and prompted by the erasure process are interspersed throughout the collection.

Along its five movements, B/RDS also explores how we can reimagine our relationship to environment through language within new frameworks of interconnectedness. eBook ISBN 978-1-64769-118-9 Paper ISBN 978-1-64769-115-8 $16.95

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